WWE Intercontinental Champion GUNTHER has reached a milestone not seen since Mr. Perfect’s reign in the 90s.
GUNTHER hit 600 days as champion on Wednesday (January 31, 2024) after defending the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Kofi Kingston on Monday Night RAW.
GUNTHER defeated Ricochet to win the championship on the June 10, 2022, episode of WWE SmackDown.
The Ring General is now the longest-reigning Intercontinental Champion in WWE history. If he makes it past February 29th, he’ll pass Pedro Morales’s combined total.
On a recent edition of “The MMA Hour” podcast, Bianca Belair hyped the upcoming reality show “Love & WWE: Bianca & Montez,” which debuts on Hulu on February 2.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On if she ever thought she’d do a show like this: “No. I was always the person, ‘I don’t want to do reality TV. Me? I don’t fit for reality TV, I don’t do that. I would never never never.’ Then I learned to never say never because they presented us with the opportunity and I will be honest and say, we both jumped at it. ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ We saw it as an opportunity to show the WWE Universe not just who we are inside the ring, but outside the ring, but more importantly show people who might not be a WWE fan or know much about WWE, use this as an introduction for them to WWE. Show them what it means to be a WWE Superstar. Show them how much is involved. Sometimes, people meet me and say, ‘You’re a wrestler? You don’t look like a wrestler.’ What does that mean? Let’s change this perception because there are so many different types of people in wrestling.
Let’s show them that wrestling is cool and dope. Show them how, as a married couple, we navigate this crazy, chaotic life. We filmed it on the road to WrestleMania, which is the busiest time of the year. The road to WrestleMania is the playoffs and WrestleMania is our Super Bowl. It’s giving the insight to show what it takes to get to WrestleMania and the sacrifices and how hectic it is. I was champion at the time so I was crazy busy.”
On hoping the show is a gateway for fans to get into WWE: “It’s really cool to show them what it’s like to be in WWE. I think about Total Divas. I didn’t really watch wrestling growing up. I remember my mom calling me and being like, ‘Have you seen Total Divas and what these women wrestlers are doing?’ ‘What are they doing?’ I’m seeing the amazing things they’re doing and it got me more interested in it. I’m hoping our show does the same and it’s why we jumped at the opportunity for it.”
